The structure can be good for dealing with a number of issues. In a lot of ways rehab can be like boot camp in that you have someone else making all of the daily decisions for you (when you wake up, when you go to bed, when you eat, what choices you have in meals). When you are under that type of regular schedule it…

I'll be honest. When I saw Wolf of Wall Street I was sort of annoyed by it because I felt it the movie didn't do enough to show the downfall of these characters. How dare this film make it look so much fun to be bad.

Why is it more simple if everyone has the same last name? I suppose if it is a situation where nobody ever got divorced this might be the case (although not really since even in that situation you only share a last name with one set of your grandparents, so the simplicity falls apart after a single generation or when…

Wolf of Wall Street is probably the flat out funniest movie of the year. There is a physical comedy sequence involving Leo trying to get to his car while high that is amazing. And yet, you don't want to be these people. He doesn't even seem like he's having fun, but treating money like another drug.

I really recommend his podcasts. The guy does about a dozen different podcasts in (Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, Fatman on Batman, and Hollywood Babble-On are just a few) and they are all pretty amusing. I like Babble-On, which is a weekly rundown of movie news and gossip, but Kevin Smith is a great storyteller. Take…

One of my cats will meow angrily when I change the Kitty Litter. It's like watching a little furry man on Hoarders yelling about how you stole all his treasure away.

The problem with a potluck wedding is sort of similar to the problem with expecting a gift. Technically your guests shouldn't be expected to show up with anything except themselves. That's why they are considered tacky. Not because you have to have a big wedding but because making any type of demand on your guests…

I am embarrassed that I did do a weird "hey, if people want to give me money that's cool" to pay for the vet bills for the cat I ended up with. He was a stray that literally followed me home and had a bunch of problems. I was going to have to put it on my credit card but since so many people were commenting about his…

Because your family would be heartbroken about not getting to spend 6 months ruining your life with wedding planning?

Most places will give you a discount on anything that you put on the registry that doesn't get purchased. So you load it up with anything you could possibly want even if you don't expect people to buy it. My Aunt had a ton of stuff on her registry for her stepchildren which looked really freaking weird when we were…

Literally the only events where gifts are mandatory are showers (wedding/baby/whatever). At every other event gifts are nice, but not expected. This 2009 NYT Article talks about wedding gifts and repeats the info that showers are the only event where a gift is mandatory. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/fas…

Showers are the only events where gifts are required. Everything else is optional in any etiquette book pre-2000. I don't really put any stock in modern etiquette books because they all tend to be completely relative and unhelpful for practical situations (i.e. some people expect gifts at a wedding and some people…

I just started my masters in public administration and have been struck STUPID at the number of right wing anti-government types in the program. And the professors also. We keep reading things from The Heritage Foundation as if they are gospel.

You have to put on a hard hat because of liability reasons not OSHA. OSHA's regulations say that visitors should wear these things but not that they must. But because it is an OSHA recommendation a violation of it would likely show negligence in a tort suit.

OSHA actually doesn't apply to porn because OSHA is for employees and porn maintains that the on-camera talent are independent contractors. Although what they are listed as on their taxes isn't as important as how they are treated (employees tend to have less autonomy in how they work than independent contractors).

The only agencies interested in her will be porn companies hoping to cash in on her fame (probably with an interracial video)

My Civ Pro Prof brought food to class (Vegan Chili was her specialty) and in the seminar classes it is typical for them to bring snacks or pizza.

Totally normal.

I wish that we could engage her in a conversation because I suspect that what she means by feeling as if she is a minority because she is straight, she really means that the things that are important to her (fashion, dating, etc.) are not respected at the school. It's just that in her mind fashion/dating are what it…

I always found the students who were drinking during class much more distracting than the eaters.